Beauty and The Beta (Bailey) novel Chapter 101

Chapter 101 – Bailey
My heart was pounding, and my head was swimming with thoughts. Not to mention spinning. Asher had kissed me… f**k… I had kissed him back… Akira was purring loudly in my mind telling me she was more than happy with the situation, while my head was battered…
I had pulled away from him breathless… terrified. Uncertain. I gently rested my head upon his forehead, my hands still resting within his soft hair. “Asher?” I whispered breathlessly, feeling incredibly anxious right now. What had we just done? Surely we had overstepped a mark that we could not undo? One that we shouldn’t have crossed…
‘Didn’t feel wrong though.’ Akira said bluntly.
And as much as I hate to admit my wolf is right, she is right. It had shocked me the way he looked at me as I had gone to give him a kiss upon his cheek to say thank you. His eyes were filled with so many emotions, but the moment his hand was upon me pulling me close to him, I was lost. Lost in him. And then as his lips found mine, I think I melted… It wasn’t what I had expected him to do or to say in response to my anger, I know that much!
“Hmmm?” Asher murmured in response to me. And I cannot help but hold back a smile. I could see his chest was rising and falling almost as fast as mine. Did that mean I made him as nervous as he made me? No. That still probably didn’t make this right…
“What are we doing?” I whispered, desperately needing to know
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what had come over him… what had made him kiss me so unexpectedly. That was not like him. Not in the slightest. He didn’t even like me. He saw me as an inconvenience, didn’t he?
I raised my gaze to his, and watched as he chewed his lower lip in what I assume was anxiousness. He looked quite vulnerable doing that… almost adorable… He certainly looked deep in thought. Was he regretting his actions now? I couldn’t help but wonder. I honestly did not know what to think, or what to do. It had felt so good. Wrong… but right…
Asher suddenly raised his gaze nervously to meet mine, the way his green eyes were looking at me was giving me butterflies. “I don’t know. But it felt good.” he whispered back, and I could hear the nerves within his voice.
I smiled, looking down shyly, my cheeks flushing at his words. I was not going to argue with that.
“Bailey?” Asher said, moving back a little more, but suddenly sounding a little less anxious now, and as I turned to meet his gaze, he was offering me his hand. I slipped my hand into his, and his hand took mine into a tight embrace, softly stroking the top of my hand with his thumb. Such a simple motion, but one that gave me goosebumps. We began to make our way up the stairs to where our rooms were.
“You know Zion is talking to Akira, right?” Asher suddenly asked me out of the blue. Wait… Zion was his wolf… Akira was talking with him? How did I not know that? She had not said a word… what a sly little…
“Really?” I looked at him.
“Hmm, he just said so. I hadn’t realized. Zion seems to get along
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and I could feel his heart pounding against my own. “Asher, I am just a teacher here.” I whispered.
His handsome features contorted into a frown, before the hand above my head slid down to my face, and softly caressed my cheek. “You are not just a teacher, Bailey.” He uttered. “You are so much more, especially to me. I just don’t think I had realized it. Or maybe I hadn’t allowed myself to…”
His words shocked me. Though, as he spoke, a phone vibrated within his pocket, and it caused him to jump a little, suddenly he chewed his lower lip anxiously once more. I was still in a mess after hearing his words. Was there more feeling from him than he had let on?
He moved himself away from me suddenly, the moment
between us was gone, as he slipped his hand into his trouser pocket. “Your keys and your phone.” He said, nerves so evident within his tone. And as he passed me the phone, the screen lit up. It was filled with missed calls and messages. From him. Miles. My sister had given him my number, and he was back in touch. Something was making him angry, and he felt the need to take it out on me, like he always had. But, what bothered me more, was if these were here now, most of them were there when Asher picked up my phone. That meant he may have seen them.
I looked up at him, but he was avoiding my gaze, only
confirming my worst fears. I needed to deal with this now. Call it damage limitation, I guess. I moved toward him, taking his face within my hand, to move his gaze to meet mine. “You saw all these?” I asked, but | ensured he knew I was not angry. How could I be? He had been trying to help me, he would never have known they were there. And it wasn’t like he could open them
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He momentarily closed his eyes, inhaling deeply, almost like he was preparing himself for what was about to come, but soon his eyes were looking at me, and he nodded. “This is your future. Alpha, isn’t it? Your former fated mate? He bullied you? Treated you so bad?” he asked, his voice so soft, so full of concern.
I know I had done all I could to hide this from people, but right now, with how Asher was speaking to me, I felt a need to be honest. He had opened up to me before. Been honest. Did he not deserve the same from me? And as I nodded in
acknowledgment to his questions, I felt his arms take me in a tight embrace as he took me into his arms, pulling me to his chest, making me feel safe…